Betty’s bargain ebooks for Friday, January 29th

Missing Persons detective Philippe Toussaint’s only niece is abducted and he’ll do anything to secure her safe return. Intensely private artist Claire Davenport fears the worst when a frightened teen girl shows up in her dreams and her secret dream paintings. She wants to help but fears her psychic ability will be exposed, forcing her to relive the devastating events that caused her world to implode. Claire never expected to fall in love, especially not with such a prominent man. Can she trust Philippe to keep her secret or will betrayal and fear destroy their dreams of love?

It is the dead of winter in Munich Germany. Petra is seventeen, alone, penniless, and seven months pregnant. In order to save the life of her unborn child she must escape from Hitler’s home for the Lebensborn. Terrified but determined, in the middle of the night, she climbs under the barbed wire and runs into the vast forest. If she is caught, there is no doubt she will be killed. But if she is to survive, Petra must learn that even in the darkest hour there is always a flicker of light.

ROMANCE

LOVING FROM AFARby Mona IngramAmazon BestsellerFREE!Save $3.99

Allison Ransome loses everything except her love for Cole Slater, the young man she planned to marry after graduation. Ten years later, Cole returns home, but can they forget the past and come to terms with the events that tore them apart?

SCIENCE FICTION

ANDROID PARADOXby Michael La RonnFREE!Save $3.99

The year is 2300. Humans and androids live in peace after a devastating singularity and years of war. Xandifer “X” Crenshaw is a special agent android for the United Earth Alliance. His job is to track down rogue androids and destroy them to keep the world safe. When another android agent goes maverick and starts a killing spree, the fallout could shatter the alliance between humans and androids forever.

FANTASY

OF SILVER AND BEASTSby Trisha WolfeFREE!Save $2.99

17-year old Kaliope is chosen as head of the Nactue Guard, becoming the sworn protector to her empress. In the midst of an invasion, she is placed in charge of guarding Prince Caben, the last heir to his kingdom. Together, they fight to stay alive while trying to save the stolen, sacred relic that will restore their empress’s life force and all of Cavan.

MYSTERY

STONE AND SPARKby Sibella Giorello#1 Amazon BestsellerFREE!Save $3.99

Her best friend is missing. And time is running out. Raleigh Harmon finally conquers her worst fear—by trespassing—and wants to tell her best friend, a smart-mouthed physics genius girl named Drew Levinson. Only Drew’s gone. Really gone. Everybody says Drew ran away. But that only skyrockets Raleigh’s suspicions.

I was only fifteen when I sent the love of my life to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Rafe Mason, rising MMA star, my brother’s best friend, and the guy my foolish heart yearned for. The guy my foolish heart won’t forget even now that eight years have gone by. But now he’s free and only wants one thing: me at his mercy. I’m a prisoner on his island, held captive by his deviant desires, bound by his justified fury. Even worse, I’m a hostage of my own treacherous heart. But the lie I told eight years ago is ricocheting and altering the course of fate. Neither of us saw it coming.

FANTASY

WINDS OF CHANGEby William Robert StanekAmazon BestsellerFREE!Save $7.99

After the Great War that divided the peoples, the five kingdoms of men plunged into a Dark Age that lasted 500 hundred years. To heal the lands and restore the light, the great kings decreed that magic and all that is magical, be it creature, man or device, shall be cleansed to dust. The cleansing raged for so long that no human could recall a time without it and it is in this time that the Dark Lord Sathar returned from the dark beyond. The one hope of the peoples of Ruin Mist was Queen Mother, the elf queen of old. She saw a way out of everlasting darkness, a path that required the union of the divided peoples.

SCIENCE FICTION

THE VARIANT EFFECTby G Wells TaylorFREE!Save $0.99

VARION was a popular medication that could cure anything from Anxiety and Depression to Schizophrenia and Zoophagia. Everybody took it back in the day, because there were no side effects… …AT FIRST. By the time they learned about the Variant Effect it was too late.

MYSTERY

WITHINby Ben Scott Craig$2.99

After a terminal cancer diagnosis, Andy Stone’s terminally ill mother flees her local hospital for the treatment of the enigmatic Doctor Lydia Bailey, who utilizes a mysterious injection and administers a unique, comprehensive recovery plan that shows great promise, despite its murky legality. But not everyone is ready to embrace the groundbreaking doctor. Medina Pharmaceuticals, a leading cancer drug maker, learns of the secretive treatment and becomes determined to stop it, at any cost.

ACCLAIMED AUTHOR

WESTERN

THE BOUNTY HUNTERSby Elmore Leonard NYT Bestseller

$4.99

The old Apache renegade Soldado Viejo is hiding out in Mexico, and the Arizona Department Adjutant has selected two men to hunt him down. One — Dave Flynn — knows war, the land, and the nature of his prey. The other is a kid lieutenant named Bowers. But there’s a different kind of war happening in Soyopa. And if Flynn and his young associate choose the wrong allies — and the wrong enemy — they won’t be getting out alive.

After months of torment at the hands of her own clan, Charlotte is sold to a rival clan. She refuses to be claimed by a man who is known for his mistreatment of women, and so she runs. The last thing she wants, or expects to find is her mate, but that’s precisely what happens. If only she could stop running long enough to take what is rightfully hers.

NEW RELEASE

ROMANCE

POLAR NIGHTby Gen Géricault$0.99Save $3.00

Polar bear shifter Fisher Frost never wanted another sleuth. He certainly never wanted to be anyone’s alpha again. Not after the tragedy that befell his family. In Polar Point, he doesn’t have to be anything except alive. Wild polar bears have it right: it’s better to hunt alone. Alone means safe. Alone means steady. Alone means never losing another piece of himself. His resolve wavers when the dawn of polar night brings his true mate.